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Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810 : migrant fictions /

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"Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America...

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Main Author: Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
English literature > Appreciation > United States.
American literature > Appreciation > Great Britain.
Atlantic Ocean Region > In literature.
Comparative literature > English and American.
Comparative literature > American and English.
Books and reading > History > 18th century.
Liberty in literature.
Publishers and publishing > History > 18th century.
Adventure stories, English > History and criticism.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Description and travel > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literatur.
Englisch.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Literaturbeziehungen.
Atlantischer Ozean.
USA.
Grossbritannien.
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